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[owl]

THEY'R IN UR LJ TRAKIN UR STATS

I've just been to the console and set stats disable to 1 like it says in the entry.

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[owl]

I know about the ISP and nothing is really private on the internet, but I can get a new ISP more easily than a new perm account :D I'm just being paranoid, really.

[legionseagle.livejournal.com]

Well, admittedly it's probably only those pinkos at the Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112248279507797567-Vjb1yq7Q_XKy8jZDQn8BGMiA_KA_20050829.html?mod=tff_article) scaremongering, but this account of Omniture's use of what is, in essence, spyware to aid their corporate customers target their marketing efforts more effectively (which, cutting through the lj_biz flannel, is what's going on here; they're looking to find more effective ways to make money out of us) means that I'm certainly not alone in being concerned about this.

[owl]

I'm not really concerned about getting booted from LJ, I am annoyed at more thirdparty tracking. It's a depressing thought that there are people who spend their lives creating spyware. Hmm, I must take a look at my adbloacker and cookie manager settings again. Hurrah for firefox extensions.